Caine
Hardcore Member
Linux itself should run on about 2 MB of RAM (maybe even less). However the choice of programs you run on top of that can greatly increase the requirements.There have been plenty of Android phones with about 2GB of RAM (Android is a fairly heavy-weight flavour of Linux).Seriously ? I know I come from Win7 and all, but damn...
I don't expect any Windows computer to be of any use below 4GB. Is Linux this light ?
How could it be both lighter on memory (HDD and RAM) and on CPU as well ? That's beyond belief...
Naturally, the selection of ported software will adapt to cater to what memory is available. The more programs you run in parallel, the more RAM you will
require. That said, the Pandora was running on 256 MB of RAM and was perfectly usuable.